In order to make DNA research more useful, you need to attach your DNA to a family tree. Today
I'm going to show you how you can add your DNA to WikiTree and add your WikiTree profile to
your GEDmatch profile. Howdy, I'm Andy with Family History Fanatics, where we help you
understand your DNA climb your family tree, and write your ancestor stories along the way. In
previous videos, I showed you how you can add a gedcom file to your GEDmatch profile. Now what we
want to do is we want to add our WikiTree profile to that GEDmatch profile. In order to do this, we
need to be over on the WikiTree website. Now I've already logged in, and the first step is to go
to your WikiTree. I've created just a simple tree with myself, one of my parents, and a grandparent
to show you how you can add this DNA profile. I'm going to click on my grandfather, and we're going
to add DNA to his profile. On the profile page, I want to edit the profile, and then in this first
paragraph, there is a link that says edit DNA tests here. We click on that, and now we can edit
our DNA. Now it's telling me that there is no test information yet because I've not added anything,
and as well, there is this box to inform you that you can add DNA for yourself or for non-living
people as long as you manage those kits. In my case, my grandfather has already passed away,
and I managed his kit. So I can add the DNA to the WikiTree website. Next, we're going to scroll
down, and we're going to add a test. The first thing we want to do is we want to select which
DNA test. And I'm going to select 23andMe. Now for each test, it's going to have you enter different
information. This is completely optional, but it can also help in some of the research. So for
23andMe, they do report to your Y-chromosome haplogroup, your mitochondrial haplogroup,
and then there's two other bits of information. If you have uploaded this kit to mito-Y-DNA or
if you've uploaded it to GEDmatch, it allows you to enter that ID. So I'm going to come down here
to the GEDmatch ID, and I'm going to put in his GEDmatch ID. There's also a box if you need to put
any other information then you can put some notes in there. And now I can add this test. So we can
see that this test has been added and what this does is this does not transfer any information
into WikiTree. What it does is it flags the tree so that people know that there has been a DNA test
taken. So if somebody else matches on 23andMe and they go to WikiTree, then they're going to be able
to find my grandfather. Or if you're searching around WikiTree and you think you might have
found a potential relative, you can look for a DNA tag to see if they have and see which websites
they might have tested on to actually go and see whether or not you match DNA with that person.
There are some other tools that WikiTree has for using DNA which I'm not gonna go over in this
video. I'll do over those in a later video. But as of right now, we've added a DNA kit to WikiTree.
So the next question is, how does this show up on GEDmatch. Well over on GEDmatch, if we go into the
person profile, that's where we're going to see this link to WikiTree. Now, this is not going
to happen right away. It takes about 24 hours to 48 hours for GEDmatch to do a communication with
WikiTree to find what new kits have been added. So you're not gonna see it right away, but after
a day or two, you should be able to see this. You go into your kit into your management, and as you
scroll down near the very bottom, there is going to be a link here that says WikiTree link. There's
some settings that you want to consider. So, for instance, you can have this as disabled. In which
case, this link is not going to show up. You can have this as an able if no alias. What this means
is that if you use an alias, the WikiTree link is not going to show up. Let me change it to
enable if no alias. So that you can see so, I've changed my access now, and you'll notice that this
is saying that the WikiTree link is not publicly available. That's because, on my account, I have
an alias AL-m3. So in order for your WikiTree link to be visible, you want to make sure that
this enables even if the alias is clicked and I'm gonna change it enable even with an alias. Now,
if you have a reason not to enable it, then that's fine. So I've clicked on that again,
and now we can see that WikiTree link is publicly available. So when people search, and my match
comes up, they're gonna see that I have a WikiTree link as well as a gedcom link if there's a gedcom
file attached. In this case, I have an attached to gedcom file to this particular kit. Now,
whenever I do is search, this is how it's going to show up. If you just have a gedcom file, it's
going to show up as GED. If you have a WikiTree link, then it's going to show up as wiki. And
clicking on that link will actually go back to the WikiTree website. So you can see where that person
fits in the tree. Now I want to stress that it takes a day or two for that link between WikiTree
and GEDmatch to occur. You don't put your WikiTree link into GEDmatch. It happens automatically
when you link your GEDmatch kit number to your WikiTree profile. Now, what happens if you want
to delete a profile? Well, you can do that too. So, for instance, I'm gonna go down to myself,
and I'm going to go back to edit, and I'm going to edit the DNA tests here. Now it's going to show me
which DNA tests I've linked to this profile. So, in this case, I've linked to 23andMe test to my
profile, and I've linked an Ancestry test to my profile. I can change the details of that test,
or I can delete that test. So, in this case, I'm going to go down, and I'm going to delete my
Ancestry DNA test. It's going to ask me to confirm whether I want to delete this test. I say yes,
and then that test is deleted. You can see now I just have the 23andMe test, but I can always add
a new test if I want to. That is a great way that you can link your GEDmatch kit numbers to WikiTree
and have that link going back. There are lots of tools that are helpful once you have trees linked
in both programs. And so I do encourage you if you don't have your DNA kits linked to a tree, then go
and link them either with a gedcom file or with WikiTree. Now, if you'd like to learn how you can
link them with a gedcom file, you can just watch this video up here. And if you want to learn more
about GEDmatch and some of the tools you can use on edit, then check out this playlist right down
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